is an
arcade racing video game which was released by
Namco in 1982 and licensed to
Atari, Inc. for US manufacture and distribution, running on the
Namco Pole Position arcade system board. The game was designed by
Toru Iwatani, who had also designed the
Gee Bee games and
Pac-Man. It was the most popular coin-op arcade game of 1983.
Pole Position was released in two configurations: a standard upright cabinet, and an environmental/cockpit cabinet. Both versions feature a steering wheel and a gear shifter for low and high gears, but the environmental/cockpit cabinet featured both an accelerator and a brake pedal, while the standard upright one only featured an accelerator pedal.